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RECIPES FOR ART PROJECTS (PAINT)
PAINTING
Tempera paint can be mixed with a variety of materials to create art projects.
1. Adding soap makes the paint easier to wash out and helps it to adhere to glass, cellophane, metal, foil or waxed surfaces. It also prevents cracking when the paint dries.
2. Alum can be added as a preservative and used with paper mache, playdough or paint.
3. A few drops of glycerine or oil of wintergreen will keep the paint fresh.
4. Adding condensed milk gives a glossy effect.
5. Painting with sponges, cotton balls, tongue depressors, ice cream sticks, plastic forks, squirt bottles, Q-tips or foam rubber curlers or other unusual items can encourage student exploration of texture.
6. Leaves and seed pods, textured materials, kitchen utensils can be used for stamping. Small toys, and marbles can make rolling patterns.
7. Put corrugated cardboard or pegboard under paper for interesting effects.
8. Try painting on large packing boxes, egg cartons, newspaper, window shades, old oil cloths, tile squares, wood scraps, and cereal cartons for various art projects.
FINGER PAINTS
1. Mix 1 cup liquid starch, 1/2 cup liquid soap and 1/4 cup talc powder. Beat with an egg until smooth.
2. Mix 1/2 cup cornstarch, 2 tablespoons sugar, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 2 cups cold water in pan. Cook and stir for 10 to 15 minutes until mixture is thick and smooth. Add food coloring. Cover tightly to store.
3. Liquid starch and tempera make an easy fingerpaint medium.
4. Shaving cream can be used for a fun fingerpainting medium.
COLORED SAND
Mix powdered paint with a fine quality sand. Repeat for each color desired. Let children squeeze out designs with white glue or dip toothpicks into the glue to make designs on construction paper. Sprinkle colored sand on the designs.
COLORED CORNMEAL
Mix cornmeal with powered tempera. Use as with sand above.
COLORED PASTA / BEANS
Put pasta or beans into a zip lock plastic bag. Add liquid watercolor into bag, zip, and mix until items are dyed. Let dry.
FLUFFY PAINT
Mix 2/3 cup soap granules, 1/3 cup water, and food coloring. Whip until fluffy and paint.
SALT CRYSTAL
Mix 1 cup flour, 1 cup salt, 1 cup water and food coloring. Put into squeeze bottles and make designs, or pat into forms.
EPSOM SALT WASH
Mix Epsom salts with water to desired strength, more epsom salts madke more crystals. Paint with a wide brush over any flat piece of artwork to obtain a snowlike crystalline finish after it dries.
COLORED BUBBLES
Mix 1 cup liquid soap in 1 quart of warm water. Add vegetable food coloring and mix well. Provide child with plastic straw and soap solution in a juice can to blow bubbles. Let bubbles land on paper and make a print when they pop.
BUBBLE PRINT
Put bubble mixture in a bowl. Have child blow bubbles in the bowl with a straw. Make a print by putting a paper onto the bubbles.
SPLATTER PAINTING
Cut a six-inch square of wire screening, and frame with colored tape. Hold over leaves or other objects on paper. Dip a toothbrush into paint and rub over screen to spatter paint. Good for cooperative work, one holder, one brusher.
RAINBOW STEW (Combine colors)
Combine 4 cups water,1/3 cups sugar, 1 cup cornstarch in a pan. Heat and stir until thick. Devide into three parts. Add coloring (blue, red, or yellow) to each part and cool. Place a glob of each color in ziplock bags. Children squish bags and make color-mixing discoveries. (Makes about 25 portions.)
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